Political Dynasties Quotes

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad..

Both major political parties have long since been seized by the same powerful group of manipulators.

Donald Trump came to a political field that had already been shaped by big money in politics.

I think the country has had enough Bushes.

There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party.

Andrew Mellon [Treasury Secretary and multi-millionaire] is today the real President of the United States. Calvin Coolidge is merely the man who occupies the White House.

The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliche of guns, goons and gold, really do still hold a lot of sway.

I never had any interest in politics. I never would have gone into politics except that when my brother died, my father insisted.

Today’s expensive election campaigns are entrenching a culture of patronage [in Indonesia].

Donald Trump is certainly an American original. Barack Obama, he's an American original. Where else but in America could that man become president? George W. Bush, a very different man from his father. These guys, they have their distinct voice and their distinct agenda.

Most of leaders in Philippine politics come from rich family.

We think of ourselves as virulently anti-establishment, particularly 'anti-' the permanent political class.

It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one

. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.

Many of the Kuomintang elite in Taiwan have relatives among the ruling elite here on mainland China.

For too long, Missouri has been run by career politicians, owned by corrupt consultants, high-paid lobbyists and special interests.

Jeb Bush is the new John Connelly.

Nobody wanted Jeb Bush, nobody wants Hillary Clinton.

Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.

I promise just to serve two terms. Republicans do it differently. They just have the son repeat the father's whole first term.

Rather than working for all, power and public policy is increasingly influenced by wealthy elites that are able to bend the rules - and hijack democratic institutions - to their favour.

When I was growing up in the south Indian city of Madras, there were only two political parties that mattered; one was run by a former matinee idol, and the other was run by his former screenwriter.

We have a sufficient political class, and the military doesn't have to get involved in high national office. The days of doing that, post-Civil War and post-World War II, are gone.

I've voted Libertarian as long as I can remember, but I don't really remember much before the Clintons and the Bushes. Those clans made a lot of us bugnutty.

Israel is not a nation of 300 million (like the U. S.). The whole elite is probably just several thousand people, and they all know each other. So Israeli politics is familial.